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I dont have that with me now is she going to be fine if I give it to her tomrrow if possible. What if she diesnt need it and I give it to her still will she be fine? Sorry I'm a worried momma I hate when things like this happenThe crop is the most likely place to start. But if that soft egg is hers, that's going to need looking at, also.
The way to verify a crop disorder is to withhold food and water until you check her crop in the morning. If it's full, then you need to figure out what disorder it is. This will help. https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/
The soft egg, if it's hers, may be related to the crop disorder. Often, a shell-less egg isn't the only egg. Two eggs coming down the oviduct in the same 25 hour cycle almost always causes trouble because there isn't normally enough calcium for two eggs in the shell gland. The soft egg you saw may have caused a second egg to get stuck behind it. This can cause the crop to back up since the egg may be blocking things from moving down and out. This is just a guess. The two may not be related.
To be safe, I suggest giving this hen a calcium tablet tonight before you go to bed. Tums would be fine if that's all you have. But pop it into her beak right now. It will stimulate contractions and maybe by morning you'll see an egg under the perch and her crop will be back to normal, as well.